A Refresher in How Not to Talk About Pre-Teen Rape Victims

by Choire SichaMarch 11, 2011

It’s worthwhile taking this refresher course on rape culture in the wake of that maliciously executed New York Times story about the rape of an 11-year-old in Texas. (I can’t even think about that story without becoming enraged!) And here is a good follow-up to that first piece: “I don’t understand a culture that punishes women for the slight transgression of, like, forgetting to shave their vagina for a week but then drops their monocles and implies they deserve to be brutally raped if they fall in line and put on some mascara and a skirt.”